Coroner may call for prison unit where WA teenager Cleveland Dodd died to be closed

Philip Urquhart tells the inquest into the 16-year-old's fatal self-harming that the state justice department failed in its duty of care

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Everything must be done to ensure no more children die in youth detention, a coroner has told an inquest into the death of an Indigenous teenager, including closing down the controversial prison unit where he fatally self-harmed.

Cleveland Dodd was found unresponsive inside a cell in Unit 18, a youth wing of the high-security adult facility Casuarina prison in Perth, in the early hours of 12 October 2023.